Imag(ine)ing our Social Worlds Mike Broussine. 2 Do a drawing... Which represents how you see your social world No artistic skills needed – e.g. matchstick.

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Imag(ine)ing our Social Worlds Mike Broussine

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2 Do a drawing... Which represents how you see your social world No artistic skills needed – e.g. matchstick people are OK Try not to use words or numbers please! Include yourself in your drawing

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Edvard Munch: The Scream (1893)

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Edvard Munch “I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red. I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city. My friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature”.

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Jackson Pollock, Number 8 (1949)

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Jackson Pollock It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world – expressing the energy, the motion and other inner forces. When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

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The arts intimately connected with feelings ‘If I could say it in words, I wouldn’t need to dance’ (Isadora Duncan ) ‘If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint’ (Edward Hopper) ‘A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art’ (Paul Cezanne) ‘The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance’ (Aristotle)

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Art Therapy Term first coined 1942 by artist Adrian Hill ( ) – “the practice of Art seemed to help to take the patient's mind off their illness or injuries and to release their mental distress”. Underpinned by a belief that clients may self- express in situations where it is hard to put feelings into words (Liebmann, 2004)

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10 Drawings … Art therapy uses art as a means of personal expression to communicate feelings rather than aiming at aesthetically pleasing end- products to be judged by external standards (Liebmann, 2004) … can be accepted as a valid method of entering a dialogue with the unconscious (Furth, 1988)

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11 The power of drawings and art Approaches person’s or group’s unconscious feelings. Enables self-expression where it may be hard to put feelings or recollections into words. Allows expression of complex, subtle and irrational facets of experience (important where “not done” to talk about feelings). Process is engaging and “hands-on”. Useful when not wanting to impose analytical framework on people, but to encourage spontaneity/creativity in expression. Encourages play, fantasy and reverie to access pre/un- conscious material.